A month on from the Svenskt Oaks at Jägersro, Lady Irene has another Classic to her name. Niels Petersen saddled three fillies for the BOLOU Fine Jewellery Danish Oaks on Saturday afternoon, and the best two of them pulled clear of the field over the final 400 metres.
Lady Irene (Study Of Man) crossed the line three and a half lengths clear of Jazz (Juniper Tree), with a further two and a half lengths back to Stall Perlen’s Nouvelle Fleur (Study Of Man).
The first prize was worth DKK 150,000 to Stall United.
It was a one-two for Niels Petersen in the race itself, and for Elkær Stutteri it meant second place with their own homebred Jazz — on a day when the stud also won the Racing Club Klampenborg Racing Bowl with Grey Tycoon.
Carlos Lopez was in the saddle on the winner, who left the stalls as the favourite at 3.59. The bay filly is by Study Of Man, out of the Galileo mare Special Gal, and was bred by Ballylinch Stud in Ireland.
Special Gal is no longer at Ballylinch Stud, however: before Lady Irene was sold to Scandinavia through the agent Edgar Byrne, Rävdansens Stuteri had already bought her in foal to the multiple Group 1 winner State Of Rest (Starspangledbanner) at the 2024 renewal of the Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale at Kildare Paddocks.
Behind the first three came Lokalebasen.dk’s Red Moondancer (Appel Au Maitre), half a length behind Nouvelle Fleur, while Søren Jensen’s Nevermore (Gleneagles) took the last of the prizes after being prominent for most of the way.
Niels Petersen’s third filly, Bahia Mar (Swipe), who was third in the Svenskt Oaks last time out, was not involved in the finish.
On 2 August Lady Irene won the Svenskt Oaks by a length, and with two of the three Scandinavian Oaks in the bag she now has something in front of her that no filly before her has managed.
“Her next start will be in the Norsk Oaks,” Niels Petersen told GalopSport after the race.
So far 21 fillies have won two of the three Scandinavian Oaks, but none has yet managed to win all three.
The Swedish-Danish double is by far the most common, and has now happened 12 times – Stove Sister (1970), Farina (1975), Rush (1976), Oline (1980), Humbug (1982), Rossard (1983), Singvanna (1985), Gyllen (1986), Rosenobler (1987), Kazoo (1991), Halfsong (2003) – and now Lady Irene in 2026.
Klampenborg · Ladies’ Day
The day in numbers
The star of the day
Niels Petersen
The Dansk Oaks with Lady Irene and the Racing Club Klampenborg Racing Bowl with Grey Tycoon — plus 2nd in the Oaks with Jazz and 3rd in the Dansk Kriterium with Huntington.
2 / 5wins from runners
31.9%of the day’s prize money
310,000DKK on the day
The trainers’ championship Lea Olsen led by DKK 195,820 before the meeting — Petersen is now in front by 4,670
Trainerstop 7 by prize money won
| 1 | Niels Petersen | 2 wins | DKK 310,000 | |
| 2 | Bent Olsen | 1 win | DKK 162,170 | |
| 3 | Lea Olsen | 3 wins | DKK 109,510 | |
| 4 | Søren Jensen | 0 wins | DKK 101,000 | |
| 5 | Bettina Andersen | 1 win | DKK 79,260 | |
| 6 | Tina Mortensen | 0 wins | DKK 50,000 | |
| 7 | Jan-Erik Neuroth | 0 wins | DKK 35,000 |
Jockeystop 7 by prize money won
| 1 | Carlos Lopez | 2 wins | DKK 253,970 | |
| 2 | Oliver Wilson | 1 win | DKK 173,750 | |
| 3 | Maikel Narvaez Bravo | 1 win | DKK 170,750 | |
| 4 | Per-Anders Gråberg | 2 wins | DKK 78,750 | |
| 5 | Lorenzo Putzulu | 0 wins | DKK 75,000 | |
| 6 | Mikkel Mortensen | 1 win | DKK 52,650 | |
| 7 | Diego Pedroza | 0 wins | DKK 50,000 |
Ownerstop 7 by prize money won
| 1 |  Stald Spitco | 1 win | DKK 150,000 | |
| 2 |  Stall United | 1 win | DKK 150,000 | |
| 3 |  Elkær Stutteri | 1 win | DKK 125,000 | |
| 4 |  Waleed Zawawi | 0 wins | DKK 93,250 | |
| 5 |  Lokalebasen.dk A/S | 0 wins | DKK 50,000 | |
| 6 |  My Stable, Kirk, Tom, Hanne og Bettina | 1 win | DKK 36,500 | |
| 7 |  JWC Bloodstock Ltd | 0 wins | DKK 35,000 |
Sirestop 7 by prize money won
| 1 | Study Of Man | 1 win | DKK 185,000 | |
| 2 | Appel Au Maitre | 2 wins | DKK 152,090 | |
| 3 | Al Shemali | 1 win | DKK 150,000 | |
| 4 | Footstepsinthesand | 1 win | DKK 97,500 | |
| 5 | Juniper Tree | 0 wins | DKK 91,950 | |
| 6 | Dark Angel | 1 win | DKK 50,000 | |
| 7 | Hunter’s Light | 0 wins | DKK 43,760 |
Breederstop 7 by prize money won
| 1 | Berner Olsen | 1 win | DKK 150,000 | |
| 2 | Ballylinch Stud | 1 win | DKK 150,000 | |
| 3 | Stutteri Hjortebo | 3 wins | DKK 106,120 | |
| 4 | Waleed Zawawi | 0 wins | DKK 75,000 | |
| 5 | Elkær Stutteri | 0 wins | DKK 75,000 | |
| 6 | Stutteri Stork | 1 win | DKK 66,260 | |
| 7 | Yeomanstown Stud | 1 win | DKK 50,000 |
Trained in
| 1 | Denmark48 runners | 6 wins | DKK 560,960 | |
| 2 | Norway7 runners | 2 wins | DKK 345,000 | |
| 3 | Sweden15 runners | 1 win | DKK 65,600 |
Bred in
| 1 | Denmark20 runners | 5 wins | DKK 553,820 | |
| 2 | Ireland7 runners | 2 wins | DKK 224,940 | |
| 3 | Sweden8 runners | 1 win | DKK 118,950 | |
| 4 | France5 runners | 1 win | DKK 67,450 | |
| 5 | Great Britain2 runners | 0 wins | DKK 6,400 |
Only the five prize-money positions in each race count — bonuses and honorary prizes are not included.
Top 7 per category by prize money won. Breeders of foreign-bred horses were looked up in the Swedish Jockey Club’s horse register.
GalopSport.dkSource: Dansk Galop’s sports system and Svensk Galopp’s horse register
